What Happens When I Move?

Inside My Body Series What happens inside our bodies when we move? Every jump, stretch, climb, kick, balance and wobble creates a chain reaction inside the body. Muscles engage, breathing changes, blood moves, nerves send messages, and the brain responds as the whole body works together. MOVE helps children explore movement as more than exercise. Through photographic imagery and dynamic body overlays, children can see some of the invisible processes happening beneath the surface, from muscles and bones to lungs, blood, nerves and brain-body communication. This inquiry-based book encourages children to notice how movement affects their energy, focus, emotions, coordination and learning. It also introduces simple cross-body movement, helping children experience how moving across the midline can support body awareness, coordination and readiness to learn. Rather than presenting movement as something children “should” do, MOVE invites curiosity and choice. Children are encouraged to explore many kinds of movement, from dancing and climbing to balancing, stretching, kicking, jumping and inventing their own ways to move. Perfect for early childhood and junior primary settings, this book supports conversations about body awareness, physical wellbeing, emotional regulation, learning readiness and the joy of movement.